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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: dembofamily@mailbox.co.za
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:22:45 +0200
Subject: RELOCATION/PARTNERSHIP
MR.JAMES AND MRS CECELIA DEMBO.
NO: 14 STONE QUARRY CLOSE
SANTON, JOHANNESBURG.
SOUTH AFRICA.
EMAIL: dembof@mailbox.co.za
SUBJECT: RELOCATION/PARTNERSHIP .
ATTENTION:
I strongly believe that this message would come to you as a surprise. In
fact, it is
in respect of the strict confidence given to me that you are honest and
versatile in
business that motivated my interest to seek your cooperation in this
transaction. My
father is late General Antonio Dembo, the former Vice president of UNITA
rebels in
Angola. He was the Chairman of Angolan Petroleum Monitoring Committee (APMC)
1992 to
2002. Sadly, he died after an injury sustained during the ambush on The
UNITA rebel
on 27th February 2002 where the President of UNITA, Dr. Jonas Savimbi was
killed. As
you might have known, Petroleum and gold are the major revenue source in
Angola
(Southern Africa). My father made a lot of money through the job but could
not
invest the money immediately to avoid probe by the military government. He
was able
to save the sum of $15M (Fifteen Million United States Dollars). He
deposited this
sum with a security deposit firm in Johannesburg in South Africa.
The documents used in these deposit are with my mother. In my father's will,
he
instructed that this money must be invested overseas with the help of a
foreigner
who is reliable and trustworthy so as to avoid probe of corruption and
embezzlement
by the federal government of Angola, since he was a general in the war torn
Angola,
and could not have amassed such wealth legally.
With his death, I came to South Africa to live with my mother as a refugee.
Hence, I
am contacting you to assist my mother and me in relocating to your country.
Consequently, I now seek your cooperation to come to South Africa so that we
can
open a company account with your Company name here in Johannesburg, and so
we can
move fund from the Security Company and deposit the money into the Company
account
for transfer to any account which you might provide overseas. I have
contact
persons in the Ministry of Finance and the banking sector to assist in this
project....
My mother and I have agreed to give 20% of the total sum to you while 65%
will be
for us then, the remaining 5% will be used to offset the bills incurred in
the
Course of the transfer while 10% will be for charity. Please note that you
shall
assist us to relocate to your country to live. However, as soon as we
receive your
soonest response, I shall give you all the necessary details and documents
you might
need. You can rich us through alternative phone and email: 27-78-717-6883:
dembof@mailbox.co..za
Thanks for your co-operation.
MR.JAMES AND MRS CECELIA DEMBO
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